reanimate
verb (used with object)
to restore to life; resuscitate.
have reanimated
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present perfectof reanimate.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The Force Awakens may have reanimated the once-dormant franchise, but it’s Rogue One that will give Star Wars fans a new hope.
From Slate ● Dec. 13, 2016
Meanwhile, the combination of catholic rethinking and Gnostic revelations have reanimated wilder Magdalene speculations, like that of a Jesus-Magdalene marriage.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only a truly sentient artist, moved deeply and genuinely by the events in the lives of those men & women of the Old Testament, could have reanimated that ancient spirituality so luminously .
From Time Magazine Archive
Rather than merely preserving Disney as a dusty institution, though, Eisner and company have reanimated its fantasy factory with their own ideas.
From Time Magazine Archive
You have reanimated a cause: you have inspired a people.
From In Direst Peril by David Christie Murray
